Jurassic Quest

I don’t know if Disney has raised our expectations too high or what but this was very disappointing. The event is horribly mismanaged and understaffed. The few people they have «working» are busy drinking their milkshakes, talking or staring at the ceiling tiles and care nothing for the actual event. There is literally no one directing lines, which are long and interweaving, or managing the kids once they actually make it onto the rides. Its like Escape from New York. Once you get in, its pandemonium. Whoever made it in is on their own. The lines could be reduced by a ton if they had people trained and actually doing something. The dinosaurs are sort of lame. You can see pants on the ones walking around. We were there on the first day of the event and everything seemed dirty and unmaintained. The bouncy houses were filthy and needed to be pitched. The metal dividers they had separating the lines were flimsy and easily shaken and literally falling down constantly with people trying to reconnect them themselves as no one working there could care less. With a million kids shaking and pushing on them, you would think they would invest in something sturdy. I was waiting for someone to put their eye out or pinch or cut themselves. The plastic walls surrounding the ride on jeep area were constantly falling as well, same issue. And there, the parents were pulling jeeps apart when the kids were bumping into each other while the workers sat back and drank their drinks. All the lines took at least an hour. Even the gift shop had a line. A line to get in. A line to pay for the deflated balloon. A line to inflate the ballon. There was plenty for the kids to do and the face painting looked to be of Disney quality, a true artist was working on those faces — — the only thing in the whole place that seemed to be above par. But my 3 year old could barely handle waiting in line to ride a toys r us jeep for 60 seconds. He definitely wasn’t about to wait in line for an hour to get his face painted. New management, please.

My 2 and 4 year old daughters love dinosaurs, and this exhibit was great. They had such a great time. We spent the whole day and they never got bored. The cost is reasonable, and once we found out they had a military discount we spread the word. Because we have 7 children It is hard to find things to do that do not make us go broke. It is also nice to see that there are still those who care and understand the sacrifices made by our military service members and their families.

We drove 2 ½ hours to come to this attraction and the lines for everything were 2 plus hours. They said the VIP TICKET included everything they had so when we got there I had to spend an extra $ 30 for my son to get his face painted and ride some rides. He’s 4 so he didn’t notice how cheap all the rides looked which wasn’t a problem and everyone that worked for this place looked unhappy at all times I walked by. Will not go to another thing like this. I will say the gentleman that did my child face painting took his time to make it look like the picture and actually looked like he had fun doing it. Always read reviews before driving more than an hour away.

Waste of time and money there so called attractions are bounce houses so dont waste your money on the vip tickets it is useless. Really expected alot more for what we paid to get in and the staff was more occupied on thier phones to answer questions from kids. Use your money somewhere else.

Pretty much of a scam. Waste your money on liquor or movies. A hangover is better than this event.

We went with two 12-​year-​olds to the one at the Monterey Fairgrounds today. When we bought out tickets, I told the guy 2 12-​year-​olds and he asked if we wanted VIP tickets. We looked at the poster and it said dinosaur rides included with the VIP tickets, so we said yes — another $ 9 each added to the ticket price. The Fairgrounds had a building full of animatronic dinosaurs in various displays that was sort of interesting. Then you went outside to an area where they had more displays, the dinosaur rides, bounce houses, etc. The crafts area looked pretty chintzy, folding tables with various stuff, but we wanted to see what the rides were. It turned out they were a half dozen dinosaurs with saddles on top that rocked the kids around like one of those mechanical horses they used to have in front of a store where you would put in a quarter for your kid to ride. Even if they had been a better ride, the saddles were sized for little kids — there was no way a 12-​year-​old would fit, even if they would go near one of these — so this was a total ripoff for us to buy the VIP tickets for them where there was absolutely nothing there to appeal to 12-​year-​olds other than the dinosaurs themselves, which were interesting for perhaps a half hour. The activities were geared to kids up to about 6 years old, maybe as old as 8 if you pushed it. There were lots of 2 and 3-​year-​olds going up on those dinosaur rides; that tells you what the target audience is.
The dinosaurs were sort of interesting, but some of the zippers were undone so some of them looked a bit tacky — the little kids wouldn’t notice or care, but the adults would. The baby dinosaurs were sort of cute — there were three of them, each with a guy carrying them around for the kids to pet. Then the walking dinosaur was somebody in a dinosaur suit — it would be a really good Halloween costume, and okay for the age level they were obviously aiming for, but sort of an embarrassment if you were hoping for something a little more substantial. Do not take 12-​year-​olds to this; there is very little of interest for them there and the VIP ticket cost was a total ripoff.

We attended the Monterey event (2 days only) which was well advertised and we were psyched! Let me start off by saying the website is well done, just enough information and pictures to make it look great. Easy to use.
We bought 3x$ 20 tickets for the kids (military price) and 2x$ 16 adult tickets (military).
Arrival:
Well organized, one line for ticket holders, one line for ticket buyers.
Walked in the gate and it went downhill fast.
1. So much for the «Dino scooters», they were just power wheels. Nothing «Dino» about them. Just plain old power wheels in a little area where the kids can drive one for a few minutes. Weak.
2. Next event, Fossil Dig. I am astonished they would charge a non «VIP» extra $$$ just to use a little broom to brush sand off a big plastic bone in a sandbox.
3. Inflatables. Yay! Wait, they were wet, muddy, and the dinosaurs on top were just falling over so my 3yo daughter couldn’t get out at the bottom of the slide without my help. After my first kid came out soaked, I ask the girl running it if she could get some towels to dry it off. She acted like I was speaking another language… Deer in the headlights.
4. There was a movie theater, or something. 12 foldable metal chairs behind a projector showing a video of an african safari. What?
5. Meet the baby dinosaurs (puppets) Cute. Really! Cute. Not worth $ 100 cute, but cute still.
6. Dinosaur rides. Pathetic. 6 in a row, one of my kids rode the triceratops, or should I say sat on top of it. The head moved back and forth, the body… nothing. He eventually just got off sans smile. I watched child after child get on, buckle in, and completely lose their smile.
7. Craft center. Paper plate pterodactyls, really? OK, not all bad, they got to make a cute little plaster mold of a little square they pick, little shells or a frog skeleton or something, took about 2 minutes then you get to come back later and pick it up when it dries.
8. The «Real Fossils» exhibit. Laughable. It was a tent. yes like the one for booth at a convention. With a few tables and some fossils to look at.
9. The photo booth. 2 Big Carnivore heads that the kids crawl into mouth from behind so you can snap a few pics. Cute idea except the dino heads were missing teeth and the paint on the tongues had all but faded away to reveal plain old plastic. Come on! These are there only for pictures, and you can even maintain them!
10. Seal the deal with your $ 16-​$ 18 adult ticket, what you get is access to a big area, inside and outside full of robot dinos with Parkinsons Disease. Shaky jerky, most of them broken in some way or another, and roars that made my kids eventually want to leave because they got tired of holding their hands over their ears.
We packed a lunch and left early hoping for a fun filled day at a dino convention. We got a solid 1.5 hours of pure disappointment. My kids are 3, 3, and 5 and they had no quarrels about leaving, what does that tell you.
Hoping to avoid wasting my time on here with a nastygram, I asked for a refund at the gate and they guys were actually pretty nice about it. Unfortunately, he said he was only going to refund the difference between the «VIP» and the regular pass so to Unilocal I go.
Please do not waste your $ 100 on this event, take your kids to a museum, buy $ 20 worth of junk at the dollar store and hide it in your sandbox or $ 5 for a bucket of plaster and get creative. Call an inflatable place in town and spend $ 50 to get one delivered to your house for a whole day. Your accounting cost will be the same but the economic cost will net you dividends in joy from your kiddos!

I wish I could give this event no stars. We came to the event with my 8 year old son and his 9 year old cousin. It was almost $ 90 and we were expecting the kids to be able to do a lot of things since they offered VIP tickets for them. The VIP tickets were worthless and the event is a complete waste of money. The way it is presented and advertised is not at all what you get to experience. Save your money and do something else with your kids, they’ll enjoy it more.

I really wish I would have found this on here before I wasted my family’s time and money on this event. We drove an hour and a half (to Champaign IL) to this ridiculous waste of time thinking it would be a good way to spend a Saturday. We ended up paying $ 100 to spend 10min looking at the dinosaurs (which we could see the zippers on so that was nice), and half an hour playing on all but deflated dino themed bounce houses. The only good part of this whole thing was the rides and we stood in line waiting ride longer than my son actually got to be on it. The dig spot was a joke. There was barely any sand in the boxes! How is that a dig? Really hope others dig a little deeper to find reviews of this thing before they waste thier money. We should have turned around when we saw «all sales final» by the ticket windows. And after reading the posts here I can see this is common and that the people who run it KNOW their event is a waste of money and don’t care.
I also attempted to leave a review on their facebook page. which got deleted TWICE along with a few other negative reviews left by others.
So you suckered us all and got our money. Congratulations. We won’t be making this mistake again and anyone that reads my social media or finds this Unilocal page, won’t either.

Went to Mansfield, OH. WAY overpriced!!! Unless you came up with alot of extra cash, there was not really anything for kids to do. Bouncy houses? and we have a jeep at home the kids can ride, along with tons of craft supplies. I’m not really sure the purpose of this place. We did like the dinosaur exhibit along with the info that came along with it, but way overpriced. The cost of this should be cut in half and the kids should still get to enjoy the extras (if that’s what you want to call them). It looked like a kids school fair but more expensive. Oh by the way did I mention WAY WAY WAY OVERPRICED!!! What a waste of $ 90. Need more displays and things to make it a real day for a family. We spent less than 2 hours there and that was stretching it by an hour. Could’ve went to amusement park and had a real day.

Bounce houses??? Oh there’s a 10 min walk through of a Dino display :(not worth the money very disappointed

My visit at Jurassic park was not what I would have hoped it to be and I gave the event 1 star. However, I contacted them-​expressed my point of view and found that they are a new business. They did rectify the situation for me in a way that left me satisfied and for that I give 5 stars. They are starting out –facing the challenges as they come— correcting them and most importantly learning from them. I have a lot of respect for people with true integrity and doing what they say the will do. Thank you Jurassic quest and well wishes for your future success!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE… read the reviews on this unorganized waste of time before you decide to spend your hard earned money!!!

The only reason I’m giving it one star is because my 4 and 2 yr old loved it. Other than that, very EXPENSIVE for the return value, highly unorganized, carnies working the activities, and the equipment was dirty and old. I spent about $ 120 for the 2 hrs I was there. I would rather spend $ 30 and go to a bounce house or a movie. This sucked!

Rip off does any one know who to contact about this? Lawyer or bbb?
I cant believe how much is charged for this event and have the audacity to charge for parking. Real let down i only can imagine how the parents who went out of there way financially to attend this overpriced dinosaur themed jumped house. This event was not even very educational. Why rip off kids this is atrocious!

took my 6 year old here.
almost empty 1^st day. paid for 1 adult ticket one vip child ticket which should of included free face painting.
which it didnt .
walked in and boy was i disappointed mcdonalds play pen is better there exhibition was small empty and lowsy! for the money i spent on this place theres really nothing here that i cant see or do in 20 mins.
walked out my son hated it .
save your money people go to the movies

There are a lot of haters, but I have to say, as an adult, I found it pretty cool. It’s pretty dark inside the exhibit, except for the illuminated dinosaur environments. The dinosaurs themselves are pretty realistic looking. As far as the educational aspect goes, it gave detail about what they ate, where they lived, all that fun jazz. It cost 3.5 venti’s to get in, and I learned somethings. Win for moi. :)

I took my wife and kids this weekend in Monroe, WA. Parking was free, but disorganized. Unfortunately, I didn’t take it as an indicator of things to come…
Lord, how I wish I had checked the online reviews, although honestly once my kids saw the commercial there was no getting out of it.
First, there were no clear directions on where to go. We just followed other people around until we found the ticket booths. Next, we told the guy in the ticket booth that we wanted 2 VIP kids, but one was under 2, so he qualified for the $ 9 VIP ticket. We explained this to the guy twice and he still rang him up for full price. Oh, and we couldn’t get a refund, because all ticket sales are final and they have a no refunds policy. The ticket prices for the adults were pretty steep as well. now we ALL know why we are going to this event — to get the kids to see some moving dinosaur robots and bounce inside some bouncy houses. I imagine very few adults would consider going just for fun, as there are things like actual museums in existence. That being said, it’s borderline extortion to charge more than a few bucks to a demographic who has no choice but to participate when taking kids. $ 24 a ticket for an adult for a child-​centric event, located in BFE nowhere (Monroe is in the sticks), is pretty outrageous.
Anyway, the experience: You go inside a couple of buildings. One has the actual dinosaurs and the other has the activities. The crowds in both were awful and it was jam-​packed with people and strollers. Many people (including us) looking around, not really knowing where to go, as nothing is clearly marked. Many people cutting lines, ignoring rules and not a lot of staff enforcing anything. The few staff we did see looked exhausted, or not interested. While my wife waited 45 minutes in line to get a picture of our oldest riding a dinosaur, I took a break in the video area with our youngest. it was here that I noticed just how shoddy this whole production was. We were watching a 5 year old dinosaur documentary on a taped and patched-​together white tarp standing in for a projection screen.
The digging area was a joke. They were 4 sandboxes with plaster «bones» the kids could «discover» by brushing away at them. Not enough tools for the kids and no time limit meant that there was no saying when another kid could have a chance.
Most of the activity building was nothing more than a bunch of dinosaur-​themed bouncy houses, and cheap paper-​plate and pipe cleaner type of craft activities.
After we had enough, we decided to take some of the experience home in the form of overpriced toys from the toy store. After deciding on what to purchase, we were stuck in yet another line waiting for the painfully slow clerks to ring everyone up ahead of us.
We finally head back out to the car only to discover a badly-​parked minivan directly behind us, keeping us from just pulling out of the stall, and leaving in peace.
I will no longer make any bad comments about the Seattle Center Museum with their crappy dinosaur exhibit. That is a luxurious time compared to this fiasco, and at least there are other exhibits at Seattle Center.
UPDATE 11/​03/​2014:
I had been contacted by the owners of Jurassic Quest. They have reached out to me to try to «right» the wrong, by offering a refund. They have also listed a large list of improvements to their operation, including their point of sale system. Because of this effort, my family and I will be giving Jurassic Quest another try and hopefully the subsequent review will be more favorable.

My sister and I took our boys to this event today at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds. We had it in our minds it would be a really fun afternoon for us all checking out what was in store. After paying $ 8 to park, $ 20 for us adults each, and $ 15 each for 3 boys it was absolutely the most disappointing event we have ever been to. We were there under 30 minutes.
The dinosaurs were pretty cool. All the jump houses were packed and each had a line of over 100 people. The inside was hot, crammed with people, the so called «toy store» area was so unorganized. People were wrapped around in line with 100 plus people with 2 people ringing up. Just a complete waste of time and complete waste of money.
For how much it is hyped up on the website and commercials, it should be $ 7 each. With all the people coming this place would still make a fortune. And why the extra $ 5 for adults? Just greed at its best.
Needless to say it sucked. DO NOT waste your time at all going.

Let me just say, PLEASE don’t waste your hard earned money on this. I’m a second grade teacher and I could certainly write pages about how disappointing it was, but I have a life with my family to attend to.
Just a few points:
FIRST — DON’T GO!
~ Incredibly unorganized
~ WAAAAYYYY over priced
~ Adults pay $ 17 for what??? Ridiculous!
~ We arrived at 10:00 right when it opened — by 10:47 — the lines to the bounce houses
were about 40 kids deep.
~ Very cheesy
~ The fossil «dig» wasn’t really digging. It’s brushing some sand off of permanently cemented in «bones.» This is for the 3 and under crew in my opinion.
Overall, if the child’s price was cut in half, adults weren’t charged, and there was free parking, I’d love to take our family again.
That’s all it was worth. VERY disappointing!!!